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spy games, wigs, weapons, dark glasses, how russia says it nabbed a cia agent. inside the obama administration's horrible no good very bad week. >>> plus, a teen athlete found dead inside a gym mat. after a picture surfaces, his parents are demanding answers. >> did you believe that? >> no. >> and you still don't believe it? >> no, i don't. >>> and attention space geeks, buzz aldrin joins me live on why america should colonize mars very soon. >>> here we go. hour two. i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me here. i want to begin this hour with some strange goings on in washington. on the justice department's snooping today, the president's chief spokesman says that the white house learned about it yesterday when the rest of us heard the news about the far reaching subpoena covering journalists. and then there is the story concerning the irs apparently making conservative groups jump through all kinds of hoops just to get tax exempt status. jay carney said, hold on, let's get more facts. in washington now, jessica yellin, chief white house correspondent, and
spy games, wigs, weapons, dark glasses, how russia says it nabbed a cia agent. inside the obama administration's horrible no good very bad week. >>> plus, a teen athlete found dead inside a gym mat. after a picture surfaces, his parents are demanding answers. >> did you believe that? >> no. >> and you still don't believe it? >> no, i don't. >>> and attention space geeks, buzz aldrin joins me live on why america should colonize mars very soon....
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man rushes counterintelligence agency says is cia russian spy ryan foggy el. the -- ofogel. they say they detained him briefly and handed him over to moscow, where he held the position of third sect. that embassy the ambassador not commenting t.cia is not commenting t. state department confirmed someone at its embassy was briefly held, otherwise. >> we have no comment at this time. >> reporter: russia's foreign ministry said such provocative action in the cold war does not contribute to building trust. they say some items he was carrying, wicks, a five, dark glasses, envelopes full of cash, what appears to be a moscow map book. when we showed counterintelligence expert eric o'neal those in the video, he said the man could be a cia officer. he said this isn't spykrast, it's stagekrast. >> i doubt a highly trained cia operator is going to be walking the votes in moscow wearing a bad wick. it's portrayed and looks like a setup to pe. >> reporter: he believes they planted that on fogel, maybe to achieve a political objective or zrookt attention from some other matter. o'neil is
man rushes counterintelligence agency says is cia russian spy ryan foggy el. the -- ofogel. they say they detained him briefly and handed him over to moscow, where he held the position of third sect. that embassy the ambassador not commenting t.cia is not commenting t. state department confirmed someone at its embassy was briefly held, otherwise. >> we have no comment at this time. >> reporter: russia's foreign ministry said such provocative action in the cold war does not...
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he was accused of being a cia act. jill dougherty is covering this story. tell us about it. >> reporter: i think what you are seeing is russians are saying this is really a pattern. they are saying, number one, ryan fog el the most recent case has actually been they would argue was with the cia. they you into it before he came. it wasn't the first time he was spying. when he came to russia, they were watching him. they say over the past two years the united states has been upping its attempts to recruit russians, most of them intelligence agents to work for the cia. in fact, they say, as you pointed out, in january of this year an unnamed american also was expelled because of that. we asked the state departmentant. that they are not giving any details or confirming that. and then finally, they say, you know, it's simply, it was too much for them. the phrase is they tested our patients and it was beyond the pail and russia says they had to make this latest case very public, which they have been. so, carole, i think you can say there is a lot going on here, a
he was accused of being a cia act. jill dougherty is covering this story. tell us about it. >> reporter: i think what you are seeing is russians are saying this is really a pattern. they are saying, number one, ryan fog el the most recent case has actually been they would argue was with the cia. they you into it before he came. it wasn't the first time he was spying. when he came to russia, they were watching him. they say over the past two years the united states has been upping its...
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that ambassador rice was speaking based on talking points, provided by the cia. and that the fundamental error in those talking points was corrected by us when we became -- when it became clear that new information shed new light on what happened, and this was not a case as republicans charged again and again, that ambassador rice had, at the direction of the white house or anyone else, said what she said about our understanding that there had been protests. that was the intelligence that she was provided. >> jay, quickly, before you go, on the ap story where the justice department has been investigating, the associated press, i have the feeling if you were back in our old job at "time" magazine, you may be one of the complaining chorus in the white house press corps about that being overbroad, reaching for too much, and that this is exactly what the press has to fear in this kind of situation with the government. >> well, i addressed this, lawrence, as you know. i was asked about this from the podium. and i can tell you two things. as a citizen, i believe it's i
that ambassador rice was speaking based on talking points, provided by the cia. and that the fundamental error in those talking points was corrected by us when we became -- when it became clear that new information shed new light on what happened, and this was not a case as republicans charged again and again, that ambassador rice had, at the direction of the white house or anyone else, said what she said about our understanding that there had been protests. that was the intelligence that she...
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allegedly trying to recruit a russian for the cia. in a scene right out of the cold war, 29-year-old ryan fogle, a low-level diplomat, allegedly caught with a spy's tool kit, wigs, sunglasses, maps, money. even a letter offering his russian contact up to $1 million a year. quote, to discuss your experience, expertise and cooperation. and instructions for opening a gmail account and address to write. the cia and state department weren't talking. the russians released fogle to the u.s. embassy. he'll probably be sent home. on twitter, the u.s. ambassador michael mcfall had no comment. >> a global terrorist network. >> reporter: at washington's popular spy museum, a former cia spy says it happens all the time. >> even the disguise material, which people have sort of charteled about, i've used disguise. so even though it may look sort of corny or sixth grade to people, it it can work. >> reporter: the russians call the incident provocative. but u.s. officials don't think it will set back efforts to improve relationed blamed by many for th
allegedly trying to recruit a russian for the cia. in a scene right out of the cold war, 29-year-old ryan fogle, a low-level diplomat, allegedly caught with a spy's tool kit, wigs, sunglasses, maps, money. even a letter offering his russian contact up to $1 million a year. quote, to discuss your experience, expertise and cooperation. and instructions for opening a gmail account and address to write. the cia and state department weren't talking. the russians released fogle to the u.s. embassy....
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this new push stems from revelations that the cia's original talking points used by ambassador susan rice in the days after the attack had undergone significant edits by senior administration officials. >> for the president's spokesman to say well there were only words or technical changes made in the e-mail is a flat-out untruth when we know any reference to act of terror or al qaeda were removed from those talking points and it was done at a deputy's meeting just before susan rice went -- >> would you call this a cover-up? >> i'd call it a cover-up. i would call it a cover-up in the extent that there was wi willful removal of information which was obvious. >> he said untruths by the way. he did not use the word lie. >>> former defense secretary robert gates defending the administration's handling of the attacks in libya. >> based on everything i've read people really didn't know what was going on in benghazi contemporaneously, and to send some small number of special forces or other troops in without knowing what the environment was or threat was without having any intelligence in
this new push stems from revelations that the cia's original talking points used by ambassador susan rice in the days after the attack had undergone significant edits by senior administration officials. >> for the president's spokesman to say well there were only words or technical changes made in the e-mail is a flat-out untruth when we know any reference to act of terror or al qaeda were removed from those talking points and it was done at a deputy's meeting just before susan rice went...
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i don't understand why the investigation isn't focused on the cia and state and security reasons. it seems clear to me the cia is somehow -- they're escaping this more than any other part. >> they are arguing and have been arguing since before the debate with mitt romney, we all watched on television, that this administration covered up an act of terrorism to get re-elected. that's their main point. did they or didn't they? >> that should be the focus. my guess is we find out that is not the case. the problem is because the administration mishandled the talking points, the message, they have allowed the republicans to take advantage of that and shift the focus to -- >> and define if a fifine it an- >> dennis mcdonough, chief of staff to president, dan pfeiffer, jennifer pamier trying to figure out how to get the one issue behind them? >> they're assuming this is going to get behind them. this is no big deal. it will blow over. >> let's move on to something. i'm convinced just studying politics people are more concerned about their own lives than something over in libya and they're
i don't understand why the investigation isn't focused on the cia and state and security reasons. it seems clear to me the cia is somehow -- they're escaping this more than any other part. >> they are arguing and have been arguing since before the debate with mitt romney, we all watched on television, that this administration covered up an act of terrorism to get re-elected. that's their main point. did they or didn't they? >> that should be the focus. my guess is we find out that...
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on friday we learned the cia talking points went through 12 rounds of changes with the heavier than usual previously thought involvement of the state doe apartment and the white house. that it was outlined in a series of e-mails. here's what the president had to say about it all today. >> the whole issue of this, of talking points, frankly throughout this process has been a sideshow. the e-mails that you allude to were provided by us to congressional committees. suddenly three days ago, this gets spun up as if there's something new to the story. there's no there-there. and the fact that this keeps on getting churned out, frankly, has a lot to do with political motivations. we've had folks who have challenged hillary clinton's integrity, susan rice's integrity, mike mullen and tom pickering's integrity. it's a given that mine gets challenged by these same folks. they've used it for fund-raising. >> was the president right? is the issue of how the talking points were changed a political sideshow? u.s. congressman michael turner is on the oversight and government reform committee which held
on friday we learned the cia talking points went through 12 rounds of changes with the heavier than usual previously thought involvement of the state doe apartment and the white house. that it was outlined in a series of e-mails. here's what the president had to say about it all today. >> the whole issue of this, of talking points, frankly throughout this process has been a sideshow. the e-mails that you allude to were provided by us to congressional committees. suddenly three days ago,...
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in fact, the cia a, there are a lot of people in the cia that were enraged at the fact that the white house would selectively leak things that would make the president look like a tough commander in charge and he had a kill list and he did this and he did that. and, so, there are leaks that they like that they don't investigate and now they're seizing people's e-mails. >> differentiated between a whistleblower and someone who wants to share information for some other reason. not up to the government to say which kind of people can disclose things. >> this is shocking. >> let's go to business before the bell, mika. >> cnbc brian sullivan. i can't be mean to him any more. his daughter, shay, so sweet. >> cute girl. >> thank you. >> how are you today? >> look how nice you are. that's why i brought her out just because i figured if you met my kid and you wonder where she came from, your hearts would melt. >> she's perfect. despite you, so, what's going on? >> well, you know what, i have business before the bell but i want to chime in on your last conversation. it's 2006, a lot of people f
in fact, the cia a, there are a lot of people in the cia that were enraged at the fact that the white house would selectively leak things that would make the president look like a tough commander in charge and he had a kill list and he did this and he did that. and, so, there are leaks that they like that they don't investigate and now they're seizing people's e-mails. >> differentiated between a whistleblower and someone who wants to share information for some other reason. not up to the...